Tag: comedy
CfP: “National Cultures of Television Comedy Symposium”, Notre Dame London Global Gateway, 16-17 November 2017 (deadline: Aug 01, 2017)
English-language television comedy is circulating transnationally more than ever before, as...
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WHAT’S IN A BURP? THERAPEUTIC GROSS-OUT HUMOUR IN UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT by Julia Havas
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015-) is a Netflix comedy produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and...
Read MoreOLD FORMATS DIE HARD by Richard Hewett
I like old things. When I was a teenager my granddad entrusted me with my great grandfather’s fob watch, and it always gave me a thrill to think that I was holding something of (it seemed at the time) inestimable age. It was...
Read MoreI STARTED A JOKE – HOW A PALE AND SKINNY BOY FROM BREMEN MOCKED THE TURKISH PRESIDENT. A COMMENT ON THE ROLE OF TELEVISION COMEDY IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE by Martin R. Herbers
Entertainment television programmes help shape the public discourse on politics. As American political communication scholar R. Lance Holbert pointed out, these shows can play a vital part for the public understanding of...
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WILL WOMEN EVER HAVE THE LAST LAUGH? TRACEY ULLMAN VERSUS VIOLENT CRIME by Elke Weissmann
Sometimes, things coincide to throw a particular interesting light on an issue that needs raising....
Read MoreRE-VISITING ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: RUDE, CRUDE AND TOTALLY SPOT ON by Stefania Marghitu
I’ll always remember my initial reaction the first time I watched Absolutely Fabulous (BBC, 1992-2012). Edina Monsoon (played by co-creator Jennifer Saunders) and Patsy Stone (played by former model and co-star Joanna Lumley)...
Read MoreWOMEN AND ‘BANTER’ IN BRITISH TELEVISION ENTERTAINMENT by Helen Wood
I have spent most of the last week worrying about my upcoming turn on the CST rota. Like Kim Akass my TV viewing habits have gone awry, mine in the inevitable balancing act of work/life/kids where at present I am wedded to...
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